I have a request. It is already now possible to do this in 0810 using MythTV video plugin for playback of video content (see links below). But it would be realy nice if LiunxMCE could do this when playing media.

I am pretty sure that all of you have some kind of juddering (or stuttering) when playing media that is 23.97Hz (Hz is also frames per second) or 59.94Hz (NTSC) or 50Hz (PAL). Try all of them and you will see that in camera pan where the movie is moving sidewards.

If you have setup 24Hz and the movie is 23.97hz, then only every 100 picture will stop for a splitsecond. So you will have to have a pan in the movie of more than 4 seconds !!At other rates the juddering might be higher! But I know for some it is REALLY difficult to see it. It is probably easier in the dark.

The first "I Am Legend – 1080p Trailer" is ok for testing - take it to 0:49 seconds and watch the top of the TV, you will see that it judders just a little when the movies pans up in the city or in the gras a little later. If you setup xorg.conf as descried in the mythtv.org link, you can setup 23.97 hz with "xrandr -d 0:0 -r 53" (can be done though ssh) then play it again and you will see that it is really smooth :-) change back to 50hz with "xrandr -d 0:0 -r 50" or 60hz with "xrandr -d 0:0 -r 51". You can pause the clip and then rewind and change forth and back. I am sure you will then see the difference.

At the moment I have really nice judderfree playback of 23.97Hz materiel and LiveTV using the above setup :-)Only PAL 60Hz is not working (yet) but I might find the solution.

I suppose it should not be so difficult to test the materiel and use "xrandr - r 51" or whatever to change the rates. The biggest problem will probably be to change the AV wizard to support the setup of xorg.conf for this. Here I mean testing if all the modes are working.

And regarding a great feature: Setting the refresh rate to the same rate as the media is helpful for judderfree playback, but it is not the only thing needed. In essence: It is not possible to get perfect playback atm. But setting the refresh rate is something that helps a lot, especially when people are judder detectors.

I have also activated both vsync options in nvidia-settings for a long time. And have the feeling it is REALLY judderfree. At least I am pretty feely with that and when playing 23.97 on 24hz I saw "jumps" on some pan's when they were long. Now with the above config I have not noticed anything yet. But it has only been running for a couple of days ;-)I would say it is really important to implement it as when testing replay with the normal playback of xine and changing the rates I notoced a big difference!

I think having the ability to playback media at the original rate is something that a media playback solution should allow. Open a feature ticket in trac, leave information in it (detailed, but dense, and no links).